Quick easy steps to setting up a development Virtual Machine using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

The following is a PHP programmer’s Linux beginner guide to setting up a development environment:

Establish where you want to host your virtual machine. If locally, you can download VMplayer, then download Ubuntu from the official website. Then you are supposed to activate SSH in order to connect to the virtual machine using putty. You can also host your virtual machine on Digitalocean or Linode.